TY - JOUR T1 - Toward a harmonized and centralized conflict of interest disclosure: Progress from an iom initiative AU - Lichter AS, McKinney R Y1 - 2012/11/28 N1 - 10.1001/jama.2012.51172 JO - JAMA SP - 2093 EP - 2094 VL - 308 IS - 20 N2 - The 2009 Institute of Medicine (IOM) report Conflict of Interest in Medical Research, Education, and Practice1 recognized the benefits that accrue when physicians and researchers collaborate with companies in the biomedical industry. Because the committee also recognized that certain financial ties can unduly influence professional judgment, it proposed a series of recommendations to help manage conflicts of interest (COIs). The core of those management strategies relies on the disclosure of relationships between individual researchers and the relevant companies. SN - 0098-7484 M3 - doi: 10.1001/jama.2012.51172 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2012.51172 ER -